Now he's accused of cutting deals with [name I won't post b/c I don't like the pig emoticon].
Alternatively, he might have simply wanted [HIM] to be in power as opposed to Hillary
I think T was trying to cover up something that is entirely different than things to do with the election to be honest. I doubt T had any personal collusion with the Russians about the election, but I think there is a lot of embarrassing ties to Russian organizations he'd like to keep private. And any time little snippets on those come out, they get conveniently and quickly buried by insert stupid tweet T does that steals the news cycle here.
In the nineties, Russia was run largely by ex-Soviet oligarchs who'd left the Party and taken big chunks of its property with them. Also, gangsters. Lots and lots of gangsters. The line between those two groups was by no means well defined. Putin was the cleverest and most determined of the oligarch/gangsters, and thus clawed his way to the top of the heap before liquidating or subjugating all the others. Nobody doubts that a large number of carcasses were produced along the way.The current tragedy of Russia revolves around the subversion of the capitalist thought into the political ability of the country to defend the group against the vicious intrusions of the bourgeoisie. The massive number of corpses originate from the violent struggle of the capitalists to control the resources of another country through the exploitation of the population, and the inability of the average worker to defend the country against the intrusion. What potential benefits does a country receive from the acceptance of capitalism except the development of the massive inequalities seen in the current American and Russian Societies? The potential development of the capitalist government involves the massive over-extension of the government's Red Army during the military conflicts of the previous decades along with the failed policies of the previous leaders as a result of the government's inability to adapt with the economic changes of the period. The massive incompetence of the government resulted in the massive establishment of the demands among the population for the "liberty" from the west because the population observed a massive delegitimization of the government as a political body after the lapse of the political censors. The massive incompetency of the situation resulted in the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev as the leader of the politburo in Russia prior to the collapse of the government, and the eventual ascension of Putin as a substitute for the czars of the previous century. The only result remains another blood bath because the governments continue to believe the path towards a bright future despite the massive reductions in the quality of life for the citizens.